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Nice -- it's ready for the Baja 1000!

LegoTechnicModel05 has created a "C-Model" alternate for the Lego 8110 Unimog U400 set -- this Lego Technic 8110 Iveco 190EH30. On his website, he wrote "This model will be the perfect scale reply of an Italian vehicle, and not simply a model inspired, but real. The instructions above will be available soon." YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abar-SEVjFY

@ Mark Bellis: Great analysis! I see what you're talking about in the :

@ dfs473: Welcome to Eurobricks! I'm looking forward to your MOC review -- you can "deeplink" your Brickshelf pictures (so that people can see them now) without having to wait 2 days for them to be moderated. So far, only YOU can see them....

Good detective work! I can see the similarity between the clone-brand and the real Lego 4896 Roaring Roadsters set from 2006: @ eagle_co94: The PDF Building Instructions for the 4896 Lego set is available on Brickset.

In various courts around the world, Lego no longer can enforce their patents on their classic "interlocking plastic bricks", so brands like this one and Megabloks cut into their market share. They're not "counterfeit Lego", only bricks with inferior quality. By the way, I'm curious about your Eagle Scout icon -- are you one? My son earned his in 2008....

Welcome to Eurobricks! The link you provided above shows that the kit is made by a Lego-clone brand:

Your Brickshelf gallery is not yet public, but you could "deeplink" your pictures so that we can see them now. Are you talking about this dude? From this Wikipedia article, "Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), better known by his stage name deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse"), is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto [Canada].... As well as his own solo releases, deadmau5 has worked alongside other DJs and producers....He is known for often performing in a titular costume head, which resembles a mouse head that he originally created while learning to use a 3D program. The so-called "Mau5head" appears in many different colors and designs...."

Cool!

@ _techniclego55_: It looks good! Do you own the real tractor? I saw your picture of it in a garage in your complete Flickr photostream (amongst 12 pictures of your MOC so far)....

dfs473 posted a pair of YouTube videos of his Lego Technic Hitachi ZX350 LCD-3 Demolition Excavator in action. Brickshelf gallery (when made public). (showing it demolishing a Lego house at 4x speed) (showing various interchangeable attachments):

I like it a lot! You did a great job using hinges to enable the multiple angled "armor" plates. Did you remove the Battery Box's covers to save weight, or to create a little more room for the armor?

I would imagine that many Lego pieces were "lost" in the grass after that carnage! I fixed the post above. Thanks for sharing your video -- I watched it in full-screen, High-Definition on for maximum effect.

What a nice display for your family! Lucky kids! If you decide to build a larger Ferris Wheel, you may consider using these parts to have a grid of "hub-and-spoke" triangles connected to each other in a radial pattern. See the bottom of this Eurobricks topic (Lego Geodesic Dome) to get the idea: 2695 "Wheel 30mm D. x 13mm (13 x 24 Model Team)" 41532 "Hinge Cylinder 1 x 3 Locking with 1 Finger and Technic Friction Pin" 30553 "Hinge Cylinder 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers and Axle Hole On Ends" 2 ea. (typical) Technic axles, such as the 3737 "Technic, Axle 10" 6538c "Technic, Axle Connector (Smooth with x hole + orientation)", placed between the two axles

beleu1 posted this well-produced of "Great LEGO Cars Through 30 Years - 8860 to 8880 to 8448 and to 8070". It is interesting to see the Lego "Supercars" side-by-side, and "morphing" from "studded" to "studless". 8860 Car Chassis from 1980 (668 parts): 8880 Super Car from 1994 (1,343 pieces): 8448 Super Street Sensation from 1999 (1,437 pieces): 8070 Super Car from 2011 (1,281 pieces):

Searme (a.k.a. Sariel) just posted this of the Lego LUGPol Truck Trial 2011 Crashes Compilation -- "Lots of LEGO pieces flying around in slow-motion. Enjoy!"

1) "FLOATING" PROBLEM: It may be possible to ROTATE the entire car around the front axle, so that the car's rear tires contact the ground. If you can share your LDD .lxf file here, AFOLs on this forum might be able to play around with it. 2) SEPARATE ANTENNA FROM BASE: This is not possible in LDD -- you cannot separate a two-component part like this digitally. 3) NO STUDS IN TECHNIC HOLES: See Jamie Berard's "Stressing the Elements" PDF file (that shows "legal" and "illegal" techniques in mixing "System" and "Technic" parts together. LDD will supposedly not do any "illegal" Lego building techniques. 4) ONLY WHOLE AND HALF-STUD POSITIONING OF 1x2 TILE: No solution for this. 5) "PONY EARS" ON 1960s-1980s OFFICIAL LEGO SETS: LDD won't model these, because they employed "illegal" Lego building techniques. See Jamie Berard's "Stressing the ELements" presentation. 6) SIDE MIRRORS USING MODIFIED PLATE WITH CLIP AND 1x1 ROUND PLATE: I believe that this is a known deficiency in the LDD program, but I'm not sure.

Yes -- this is exactly what one sees in the National Forests around here. Is the Lego griparm powerful enough to lift the rear "stack-on" trailer, just like in real life?

On this TechnicBRICKS topic, Fernando Correia wrote a nice article about the 9398 4x4 Crawler, and added these two pictures: I think that the "wild" colors are in keeping with the real rock crawlers I've seen (some of which roll on the hillside I can see from my house). At least it's not the usual (boring) RED or YELLOW Technic color scheme!

@ Rodedown: I think that your dual rear wheels mod looks fine! There are quite a few Peterbilt 379 logging trucks on the roads here in the Pacific Northwest, and the mod you did looks more realistic! SAR BOY's Flickr photoset has 32 pictures of them, and one can see that the rear "track width" can be a bit wider than the front axle's track width. If you look at the mud tracks in the picture below, it seems that the rear track is a bit outside the front track:

The tire sidewalls (visible on the original post) say 94.8 x 44R, so these are the already-available 54120 "Tire 94.8 x 44 R Balloon" (used on the 8297 Off Roader). Is it possible that the colors on this 9398 4x4 Crawler prototype model is camouflaged, like automakers sometimes do with their future models? Perhaps certain colors are not yet available for the 9397, so TLG substituted other colors. The set won't be released for 6 more months, so if TLG gets negative feedback about the orange/black/white color scheme, there's time to change it. Perhaps TLG reads this Eurobricks Technic Forum and other AFOL websites. TLG, are you listening?

Hmmm, I wonder if bbqqq can replicate in LDD and have all the gears turn simulataneously with the "Hinge Align Tool":

@ The talented musician Thelonious Monk: I like your pneumatic platform -- it could be used to inspect the underside of bridge overpasses.

You're right, the Unimog's 92912 "Tire 94.3 x 38 R" is missing, but it's also missing from the "Visual Lego Wheel Helper" too.